Eligible telecommunications carriers should have their Lifeline customers re-certify their own neligibility for the program, TracFone said in comments filed with the FCC. But requiring nminimum monthly charges for Lifeline customers “would do nothing to prevent waste, fraud nand abuse” and only “make Lifeline service unaffordable to millions of low-income households nwho are intended to benefit from the program.” TracFone has many Lifeline customers, and it nhas been singled out as one of the wireless companies that are driving pay phone companies nout of business.
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